When the subject of exercising comes up for older adults many people think about walking, low impact aerobics and water aerobics, All safe and perfectly good programs to stay in shape.Rarely does the idea of strength training for older people come up. Lifting dumbbells and barbells with various amounts of weight on them didn’t seem right for older folks.
Why? The answer was probably because it wasn’t considered safe, or somehow the older body couldn’t handle the strain. Don’t push that aging body of yours!
Well, now the health industry doesn’t only approve weight lifting or resistance training for older people it encourages and recommends it.
It is official, strength training is for everybody!
